{"id":5,"date":"2015-12-09T17:05:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/nancylouiselewis\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2017-10-06T23:24:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T23:24:21","slug":"daisies-dont-lie-misadventures-in-journalism-the-making-of-a-feminist-by-nancy-louise-lewis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/nancylouiselewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Books by Nancy Louise Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daisies Don’t Lie: Misadventures in Journalism<\/h2>\n

\"Lewis-Cover-Web\"My life in journalism, which began covering a notorious, and until now unsolved murder in Connecticut, led to attempts on my life by cops in two states. You don\u2019t have to be black to have cops wanting you dead!<\/p>\n

I uncovered newspaper corruption wherever I went during my thirty-year career, and also found corruption and dysfunction in government at all levels. I ended up homeless, first on East Coast streets and later in New Mexico, due to the duplicitous nature of some of the papers I wrote for, which promise truth but give anything but.<\/p>\n

Part I details my poisoning at the hands of constabularies and others in Louisiana, after I exposed an until now unpublished account of a massacre of black soldiers in 1942, which was covered up by the Army and my newspaper.<\/p>\n

Part II describes homelessness in detail from a first-hand perspective, both on the East Coast and in New Mexico, and it features columns I published while on the streets.<\/p>\n

Part III describes the effort of Santa Fe cops to eliminate me permanently after I’d become a thorn in the sides of corrupt officials and newspapers by filing forty-odd lawsuits.<\/p>\n

I must be a cat in disguise, since I wrote for newspapers in at least nine states and am still alive to tell the tale. I hope this book will precipitate change in journalism, the love of my life.<\/p>\n